Show us your home made tools
Some people might not know this, but powder coating work requires that the part not be touched at all while it's in the 'raw' uncured state. I personally strive to not have wire marks or any evidence of how I suspended the part. As a result, all of my jigs are homemade ...
Right in the front on my work bench you'll see a Slant 6 valve cover jig. On the top shelf behind it from the left, hardware jigs and various length roundbar hooks for heavy parts and wheels ...
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Top shelf on the left are old (no longer used) valve cover jigs, my fully adjustable hood hinge / spring jig (allthread, nuts and 2 pieces of L-angle), taller air cleaner base jig near the back, and the vastly-improved valve cover jigs I use now on the right. I have several more sets of these not pictured here. The really long beige tubing also uses 2 of the roundbar hooks and goes through the center hub on antique spoke wheels.
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The bottom shelf shown above has an intake manifold jig on the left (yep those are old cast iron shelf brackets LOL), the weird round thing in the middle uses one of my big roundbar hooks up there ^ ^ ^ and fits inside the roof trolley of my oven; it suspends / rotates motorcycle frames by going through the head stock with more allthread. On the far right are air cleaner jigs (the tall one is laying down behind everything else). You'll also notice some more old shelf brackets stashed in case I need them for something else. :-D
And bonus points goes to whomever can guess what I use this for. It was literally years in the making since all prior jig efforts to coat those parts always resulted in a mark somewhere. Not anymore!!!
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Billy tells me this thing was used by the military. "A hook went through there and a bomb screwed onto this end ..." Yeah, okay honey. :-D All I know is it's the best body work dolly I've ever found that fits my hand, and despite the crappy pictures I can tell you it's magnificent for getting into the corners ...
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No clue what this thing used to be either but I use it a lot for dings, dents and gasket rail corners on valve covers. It's about a half inch thick and the slight bend comes in handy sometimes.
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